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Cryopreservation of Colocasia esculenta L. Schott (Taro)

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Cryopreservation of Plant Germplasm II

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Taro [Colocasia esculenta L. Schott] is one of the three important root crops of the monocotyledonous family Araceae. The other two comprise species of the genera Alocasia and Xanthosoma. The Greek name colocasia was derived from the Arabic “qolquas” and the Malay name “tallas” gave rise to the Polynesian taro (Porteres 1960). There are confusions in the taxonomy of different edible Colocasia cultivars. Based on the morphology of the sterile appendage within the spathe, some researchers recognize two species, namely, C. esculenta and C. antiquorum. Others consider only one species, C. esculenta. Currently, many workers recognize C. esculenta but with two varieties, var. esculenta (syn. var. typica A. E Hill) or “dasheen” type and var. antiquorum (Schott) Hubbard and Rehder (syn. var. globulifera Engl. and Krause) or “eddoe” type (Purseglove 1975). Generally, the main difference between these two varieties lies in the form of their corm (“tuber”). Variety esculenta has a main large corm with few small side cormels while var. antiquorum produces a relatively small central corm but with many side cormels.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology and Nuclear Techniques, Nuclear Research Institute, 1 Nguyen Tu Luc St., Dalat City, Vietnam

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  2. Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, 1–2 Ohwashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

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Thinh, N.T., Takagi, H. (2002). Cryopreservation of Colocasia esculenta L. Schott (Taro). In: Towill, L.E., Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Cryopreservation of Plant Germplasm II. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04674-6_8

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